Aalto Networking Platform

The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas.

We bring together researchers, engineers and artists across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.

Networking event 'Artificial intelligence in materials science'_photo Glen Forde

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Our key activities focus on bringing researchers together and supporting multi- and cross-disciplinary initiatives

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Resilient Leadership for Hybrid Work – Navigating new challenges to performance and wellness

19.8.2021 15:30 – 18:00 Events

Essays and podcasts on topics related to human-centered living environments.

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Advanced energy solutions

The main research foci in energy research are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.

View of Helsinki by night. Photo by Ioannis Koulousis.

Arts and design knowledge-building

Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in art and design knowledge building.

ICT and digitalisation

Digital technologies like AI and 5G cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.

Aalto X Reality Keynote PiP by Matti Ahlgren

Global business dynamics

Research related to global economy dynamics is carried out in the areas of business, economics, and industrial engineering and management.

General image of people gathered at Slush startup event, photo by Mikko Raskinen

Health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing focus areas include biomedical engineering, neuroscience, biomaterials, digital health, and health management and design.

Human-centred living environments

Research in this area aims to understand how individuals experience their physical environment and how art, spaces, buildings and communities can enhance it.

Kokoon modular living system is made of wood. Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo

Materials and sustainable use of natural resources

Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.

An abstract composition of different metals and forms.

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Online event 19.8.2021 15:30 – 18:00

Resilient Leadership for Hybrid Work

Resilient Leadership for Hybrid Work – Navigating new challenges to performance and wellness

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Resource Wisdom - Designs for a Cooler Planet 2021

Exhibitions and fairs 8.9.–29.9.2021

Helsinki Design Week 2021 lands in Otaniemi in September, showcasing three paths to resource wisdom

What is wise to design for future generations? Luxurious biocolours from fields, wearable solar cells and a lot more. Have a look into the future!

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Designer Leevi Ikäheimo's anatomical knitwear (2020)

Exhibitions and fairs 8.10.2021–13.3.2022

Intimacy situates at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion.It updates our understanding of Finnish clothing and accessory design into the 2020s, exploring the intimate relationship between the body and the clothes we wear and introducing visitors to the creative design process, from initial sketches to the finished products.

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Cooperation, University Published: 15.6.2021

Architecture inspired young composers

Collaboration with music institutions combined architecture and music.

Skyscrapers by the water. Text: Urban GoodCamp, Tackling urban challenges.

Cooperation Published: 14.6.2021

Aalto University solves urban challenges as a part of the Urban GoodCamp project

The Erasmus+ project Urban GoodCamp aims to empower Higher Education Institutions and their urban stakeholders to tackle pressing urban challenges.

Lithium ion battery electrodes and cells, researcher Taina Rauhala, photo Valeria Azovskaya, 2017

Cooperation, Research & Art Published: 14.6.2021

Safer and more efficient rechargeable lithium batteries – Aalto is taking part in new corporate cooperation projects

International projects aim to develop new more environmentally friendly materials and production methods for rechargeable lithium batteries

Etäläsnäolorobotin toimivuutta testattiin projektin aikana eri kohteissa ja palaute oli positiivista. Kuva: VTT

Press releases, Research & Art Published: 11.6.2021

Researchers: Service robotics will be part of a nurse's job in ten years

The six-year ROSE project focused on issues such as remote presence robots and power vests for nurses. Experiences were positive, but the technical development of robotics is not yet up to the required level. A road map for the sustainable extensive utilisation of care robotics has been published in connection with the project.

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